11 Sep
1996
11 Sep
'96
9:27 a.m.
I don't know, but since nobody else seems to either, how about a router box that detects excessive SYN activity and then automatically blocks that ip address for awhile? I suppose it just means that the attacker has to vary the source address rapidly.
Anyway. Point is this: We can't take too much more of this, nor can our customers. I have yet to hear *anyone* come up with any ideas even remotely reasonable for how to deal with this situation, long term, except for the